Q 1 – Kids discuss the existence of ghosts or beasts on their island. The rule of this meeting is that if you want to speak you need to hold the conch.

They disagree, there is an argument / fight. The leader is challenged. The hierarchy is upset because they break the rules.

To argue with so: se disputer avec qq’un.

to agree with so. = être d’accord

Q2 – They have to decide what to do with the beast: kill it or stop believing in it / stop being afraid. The final decision seems to be violence, killing, beating it down. It’s Jack’s decision, it’s not unanimous because Jack is rebelling against Ralph and taking leadership / the power.

Q 4 The mood is tensed / full of conflicts / represents the fight between reason / civilization / rules / the right way and violence / beast-like behaviours

Ghosts stand for the dark side of the kids’ mind, they represent their fears and inner conflict between imagination and reason , man and beast.

It hints at the theme of madness. Kids gradually become savages, they loose control over themselves.

This extract corresponds to the dark side of the island, language gradually becomes sound only ‘beat and beat and beat’ sounds like a tribal song > could be linked to the song by Gnarls Barkley.

Personal documents:

Shutter Island vs the Beach

The Island of Doctor Moreau

The Heart of Darkness

The I and the Eye

The Sentimental Journey by Lawrence Sterne

Tristram Shandy by Sterne

> madness / split personality

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Duel by Spielberg

The Usual Suspect , David Fincher

The Shining, Kubrick

Coral Island

Q. 1 They fish and hunt to feed themselves / check for boats / making their own clothes / shoes

They know how to cope on their own, they manage, they live by.

They lead a happy life, they live and sleep under the stars, they don’t mind their situation.

Relationship= they get along well, they don’t fight, ‘we’ is used several

times there is no disagreement, no tension, no arguing.

Brotherhood of boy scouts

Q 2 – Faced with this situation / predicament they work as a team

instead of being scared, they’re self-reliant and strong-minded.

Q 3 – Nature appears like a peaceful environment / the kids are in harmony with nature / nature provides food and happiness.

Q-4 perpetual summer / water garden > the island is heaven on earth / the Garden of Eden > Utopia

Conclusion:

Coral Island stands in sharp contrast with Lord of the Flies. Both extracts depict kids surviving on an island. Yet in Coral Island nature provides food and happiness whereas in Lord of the Flies the island reveals the evil side of man.